Miss Sutton had returned from speaking to those in the troubled Iraqi-Kurdistan region

"But it was her decision"

Mr Walker said: "Would you like me to add that this an impulsive act?"

Holding back tears, Ms Sutton said: "Yes."

Speaking after the hearing, Jenny Sutton said her sister she would have been pleased to see the "ghastly folly" of the Iraq war laid bare by the Chilcot report last week.

She said: "The one thing I would like to say is that I know that what she was doing before her death, in Iraqi-Kurdistan, was that she was working with a Kurdish journalist, gathering stories from Iraqi people and Kurdish Christians, Sunni, Shia, Muslims, Jews.

"She was gathering stories for how those communities had lived together for generations in peaceful coexistence before the interference of the West and before the war opened up such horrible sectarian divisions.

I think a contributory factor to the blackness that overcame my sister was seeing the suffering of the people of the Middle East

Jenny Sutton

"I think a contributory factor to the blackness that overcame my sister was seeing the suffering of the people of the Middle East.

"We'd marched together against the war and she had been living in war zones for a long time and had absorbed a lot of the suffering of those people.

"I think she would be pleased to see the Chilcot report coming out and to see the findings, to see the ghastly folly of American and British invasion in that region and all the trauma and suffering in that region that has resulted."

She added: "It's been very difficult, but I think anybody with empathy living in war zones feels the pain.

"Jacqueline would be the first to say that her first thoughts were for the Kurdish, Iraqi people in the region for many years.

"She was extraordinarily brave, fearless, and loving."

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